"I'm starting to see a lot of off-the-shelf computer systems sharing one common trend; they're all getting smaller and smaller. The amount of power that can be packed into a small form factor system these days is quite astonishing. For that reason, a lot of home PC builders are also starting to build smaller and smaller. Why invest a lot in a full-ATX setup if the need isn't there to fill each and every slot anymore? This is where the Micro-ATX form factor comes into play."

Day two of the Intel Developer’s Forum was kicked off with a couple of keynote addresses from Renee James, the Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Software and Services Group at Intel and Doug Davis, the Vice President and General Manager of the Embedded and Communications Group. The main focus of their talks revolved around Atom, the ecosystem surrounding it and other low-power Intel platforms, as well as physics and improving the gaming experience for Intel IGP enabled products.